TSAdmin Work Around
TSAdmin.exe is an application that allow an administrator to see who is connected via RDP to a server. My purpose for using this tool is to disconnect an idle session so that I can get on the server. This application comes in the Windows 2003 SP1 AdminPak. According to KB Article 930056, there is a known issue with running tsadmin.exe on Vista. The work around is basically, “you can’t so use it somewhere else” which I find extremely lame. This should have been fixed by now. Here is the text:
Terminal Server Administrator (Tsadmin.exe)
The Terminal Server Administrator tool does not work on a Windows Vista-based computer because of an access violation. To work around this issue, run Remote Desktop from a Windows Vista-based computer, and connect to another computer that can use Tsadmin.exe. For example, connect to a Microsoft Windows XP-based or a Windows Server 2003-based computer that has the Administration Tools Pack installed.
Posted: June 13th, 2007 under Vista.
Comments: 3
Comments
Comment from jorge
Time: August 31, 2007, 12:35 pm
Unbelievably short-sighted of Microsoft to do this.
Comment from Remko
Time: December 19, 2007, 3:48 pm
See http://www.remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2007/12/19/why-tsadmin-crashes-on-windows-vista for the reason of this Access Violation.
Comment from Remko
Time: March 2, 2008, 12:20 pm
SP1 fixes this, see http://www.remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2008/03/02/vista-sp1-changes-to-terminal-server-api/
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